Curriculum Vitae

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Brief Resume


A more detailed version can be downloaded here (FR)

Work Experience

Since Aug. 2024

Postdoctoral Researcher, Université du Québec à Montréal

Project: Interpretability and explainability of black-box models

Supervisors: Arthur Charpentier and Marie-Pier Côté

Mar. 2021 - Mar. 2024

(CIFRE) Ph.D. Candidate, EDF R&D

Project: Interpretability of machine learning models for critical systems

Supervisors: Nicolas Bousquet, Bertrand Iooss, Jean-Michel Loubes, Fabrice Gamboa

Dec. 2020 - Mars. 2021

Research assistant, EDF R&D

Project: Cooperative games for relative importance quantification

Supervisors: Bertrand Iooss, Vincent Chabridon

Mar. 2020 - Sept. 2020

Research intern, EDF R&D

Internship thesis: Shapley effects for reliability oriented sensitivity analysis

Supervisors: Bertrand Iooss, Vincent Chabridon

Jun. 2019 - Aug. 2019

Research intern, MAIF Data Lab

Project: Word embeddings and sentiment analysis. Contributions to Melusine.

Supervisors: Frédéric De Javel (MAIF), Hugo Perrier, Benoît Lebreton (Quantmetry)

Jul. 2018 - Aug. 2018

Research intern, Inserm CIC 1402

Project: Automatic search and statistical analysis of medical records.

Supervisors: Pierre Jean Saulnier, Elise Gand

Mar. 2017 - May 2017

Research intern, Inter Mutuelles Assistance

Project: Metadata of data streams between sources and automated reporting

Supervisors: Jean-Philippe Genet, Louis-Vincent Potura

Education

2021-2024

Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, Université de Toulouse

Thesis: Development of interpretability methods for certifying machine learning models applied to critical systems

Supervisors: Jean-Michel Loubes, Fabrice Gamboa, Nicolas Bousquet, Bertrand Iooss

2017-2020

Ms.C. in Data Science and Advanced Statistics, ENSAI

Ms.C. in Mathematics (Statistics), Université de Rennes

2015-2017

Equiv. AAS, Statistics and Business Intelligence, Université de Poitiers

Teaching

Teaching Assistant

2022-2023 - Statistical inference with Salima El Kolei at ENSAI

Main evaluator

2024 - Graduate student statistics projects at ENSAI

Invited Lectures

2022 - Journée thématiques MEXICO with Bertrand Iooss

Supervision

Lucas Offroy

2025, Research intern, Université du Québec à Montréal with Arthur Charpentier

Hasnae El Hakkaoui

2025, Ms.C. student, Université Laval with Marie-Pier Côté

Margot Hérin

2021, Research intern at EDF R&D with Vincent Chabridon and Bertrand Iooss

Research


Links, full-texts, preprints, abstracts, slides, posters, video transcripts and BiBTeX entries can be found in the dedicated page

Talks

2025

  1. Robustness assessment of black-box models to feature perturbations, Workshop on Probability and Machine Learning, Guanajuato, Gto, México (Feb.)

2024

  1. Interprétabilité des modèles boîtes-noires avec variables dépendantes, Séminaire STATQAM, Montréal, QC, Canada (Oct.)

  2. Hoeffding's functional decomposition for dependent inputs, CRM Conference on New Developments in Probability, Montréal, QC, Canada (Sept.)

  3. Sobol' indices, Shapley effects, and a path towards handling dependent inputs, Sensitivity Analysis Discord Group, Online (Sept.)

  4. Generalized Hoeffding decomposition and the linear nature of non-linearities, CRM-ISM Montréal Probability Seminar, Montréal, QC, Canada (Sept.)

  5. Cooperative game theory and importance quantification, ENBIS Spring Meeting, Dortmund, Germany (May)

  6. Avancées en décomposition de modèles boîtes-noires, Workshop SINCLAIR, Saclay, France (Mar.)

  7. Hoeffding decomposition revisited, SIAM Conference on Uncertainty Quantification, Trieste, Italy (Mar.)

  8. Generalized Hoeffding decomposition and the linear nature of non-linearity, UQSay Seminar #69, Online (Feb.)

  9. Robustesse et Interprétabilité des modèles boîtes-noires, Nexialog Consulting Webinar, Online (Jan.)

2023

  1. Cooperative game theory and importance quantification, 23rd European Young Statisticians Meeting of the Bernoulli Society, Ljubljana, Slovenia (Sept.)

  2. Proportional marginal effects to quantify importance, Forum MobiliT.AI 2023,Toulouse, France (May)

  3. Coalitional decomposition of quantities of interest, 2023 Annual Meeting of MASCOT-NUM Research Group, Le Croisic, France (Apr.)

  4. Interpretability of black-box models, Séminaire Quantact, Montréal, QC, Canada (Aug.)

  5. Black-box model decomposition with dependent random inputs, École Thématique sur les Incertitudes en Calcul Scientifique, Cap Ferret, France (Oct.)

2022

  1. Interpretability of black-box models, Vendredis Science des Données de la MAIF, Niort, France (Dec.)

  2. Robustness assessment of black-box models, École Thématique sur les Incertitudes en Calcul Scientifique, Golfe de Lozari, France (Oct.)

  3. Robustness assessment of black-box models, SINCLAIR Summer Workshop, Saclay, France (Jun.)

  4. Robustness assessment of black-box models, 53èmes Journées de Statistiques de la SFdS, Lyon, France (Jun.)

  5. Robustness assessment of black-box models, 2022 Annual Meeting of MASCOT-NUM Research Group, Clermont-Ferrand, France (Jun.)

  6. Shapley effects for reliability-oriented sensitivity analysis with correlated inputs, 10th International Conference on SAMO, Tallahassee, FL, USA (Mar.)

2021

  1. Mesures d'importance relative par décompositions de performance, 52èmes Journées de Statistiques de la SFdS, Nice, France (Jun.)

  2.  Cooperative Game Theory and Global Sensitivity Analysis, École Thématique sur les Incertitudes en Calcul Scientifique, Erdeven, France (Sep.)

Journal Articles

  1. Hoeffding decomposition of functions of random dependent variables

    M. Il Idrissi, N. Bousquet, F. Gamboa, B. Iooss, and J-M. Loubes - 2025, Journal of Multivariate Analysis

  2. Quantile-constrained Wasserstein projections for robust interpretability of numerical and machine learning models

    M. Il Idrissi, N. Bousquet, F. Gamboa, B. Iooss, and J-M. Loubes - 2024, Electronic Journal of Statistics

  3. Proportional marginal effects for global sensitivity analysis

    M. Herin, M. Il Idrissi, V. Chabridon, and B. Iooss - 2024, SIAM/ASA Journal on Uncertainty Quantification

  4. On the coalitional decomposition of parameters of interest

    M. Il Idrissi, N. Bousquet, F. Gamboa, B. Iooss and J-M. Loubes - 2023, Comptes Rendus. Mathématique

  5. Developments and applications of Shapley effects to reliability-oriented sensitivity analysis with correlated inputs

    M. Il Idrissi, V. Chabridon and B. Iooss - 2021, Environmental Modelling & Software

Awards and scholarships

Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship (09/2025-09/2027)

Awarded by the Canadian Statistical Sciences Institute (CANSSI), funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada

CIFRE Doctoral Funding (03/2021-03/2024)

Collaboration between the Mathematical Institute of Toulouse (IMT) and Électricité de France (EDF), funded by EDF and Association Nationale de la Recherche Technique (ANRT)

Service

Peer-review

Journals: Computers & Operations Research - Technometrics - Statistical Science

Conferences: Journées de Statistique de la SFdS

Books: Interpreting Machine Learning Models With SHAP - Basics and Trends in Sensitivity Analysis

Evaluation

Grants: External Reviewer, NSERC Discovery Grants (2025)

Responsabilities

PhD Student Representative of the PRISME Department at EDF R&D

Event organization

Conferences: International Organizing Committee, 24th European Young Statisticians Meeting - Session organizer, 53èmes Journées de Statistiques de la SFdS

Seminars: Organizing Committee, Séminaire des étudiants en statistique et actuariat de l’UQAM - Creation, Organization and Coordination, Séminaire annuel des stagiaires du département PRISME d’EDF R&D

Scientific communities

Associate research member, Observatoire international sur les impacts sociétaux de l’IA et du numérique (Obvia), 2025-2027

Member, Statistical Society of Canada, 2025-

Member, Association des Statisticiennes et Statisticiens du Québec, 2025-

Member, Association Française pour l’Intelligence Artificielle, 2024-2025

Member, Société Française de Statistique, 2021-2025